BUSINESS ABROAD: India's Host

In India, where Horatio Alger sagas
are as rare as Hindu beefeaters, one of the rare exceptions is the
career of Mohan Oberoi, India's Conrad Hilton and a onetime farm boy
from the Punjab who started out in 1921 without a rupee to his name. He
now owns a $20 million interest in Oberoi Hotels (India) Ltd., a string
of 13 hotels, and a luscious beach guest house on the Bay of Bengal
that has been host alike to nabobs, maharajas and Socialist Jawaharlal
Nehru. Last week at 56, Hotelman Oberoi was constructing in New Delhi
Asia's most modern...